Students will have a readers' notebook to write down their thoughts and feelings about the books they are reading. ... This notebook is also to help students think critically about the text, make connections, and to reflect. The amount of time students spend writing in these notebooks can vary. ... The writer's notebook is a key component of the writing workshop, which includes independent writing, guided writing, and investigations. ... I will make sure that I am allowing ample time for my students to write in their notebooks at school and not making this a homework assignment. ...

• Word Count: 3469
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

I carried a small, handheld notebook with me wherever I went. ... I would come home and give my notebook to my mom and she would try and decipher what I had written in my little notebook seeing as my penmanship was still far from beautiful. Every day for every year of elementary school I carried that notebook with me. By the end of my fourth grade year the notebook had seen better days. ... I decided once Middle school rolled around the childish games of the nerd with the notebook would be over. ...

• Word Count: 1631
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

English is my weakness. ... My mother has been with a number of men: my father, my brother's father, and now my step-father. ... Words have never been on my side, as people have always used them to establish my worthlessness. I could never use my words to express my dislike for the way my mother blamed me for her disfigured love life. ... I couldn't control the path I wanted my thoughts to take, and so I just continued writing random -- possibly irrelevant -- thoughts in my notebook. ...

• Word Count: 821
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Some of my earliest memories are of my godmother reading to me in the evening. ... A few weeks into school, the teacher produced a box of shiny, new spiral notebooks for the class. ... A lot of my time was spent in the library. ... My English teacher, Mr. W, was the one that caught my attention. ...

• Word Count: 1078
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

My Emphasis In addition to the above emphasis, I want my students to investigate and enjoy language in all its varieties. ... For further information on CSU's Official Notebook Computer Policy, please go to http://itpchoice.clayton.edu/policy.htm. Daily, reliable Internet access for GAView Stapler and other small office supplies such as paper clips Computer Requirement: Each CSU student is required to have ready access throughout the semester to a notebook computer that meets faculty-approved hardware and software requirements for the student's academic program. ... For further info...

• Word Count: 6229
• Approx Pages: 25
• Grade Level: High School

As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.... The essay I wrote my freshman year of high school about William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet shaped how I write my essays. Writing for a Greek student life newspaper my freshman year of college changed my style of writing, and how I approached deadlines. ... " He goes on to say as well that, "I told the Englishman that my alma mater was books, a good library.... " Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" has influenced James Cameron's "Titanic," Nicholas Spar...

• Word Count: 1022
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The notebook paper looking pages mean that a new chapter is beginning. ... For example, for Project 3 in my English 101 class we were required to write a review of IUP as a whole. ... I used this feature when I completed Project 1 for my English 101 class. ...

• Word Count: 1365
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School